Today, President Obama will meet with both Prime Minister Harper as well as Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff. I hope they discuss an effective environmental policy. In addition, I hope Michael Ignatieff and well as PM Harper request that Omar Khadr be repatriated.
Here is my plea to PM Harper (as well as to all Canadians):
Please do not allow Omar Khadr (a Canadian born, Canadian citizen) to face trial in an unjust court system. I beg PM Harper and all Canadians to please respect the human rights of Omar Khadr as they should respect the human rights of all human beings.
"In 2003, Canadian officials, including agents of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, questioned Khadr at Guantanamo Bay with respect to matters connected to the charges he is now facing, and shared the product of these interviews with U.S. authorities." Canada (Justice) v. Khadr, 2008 SCC 28
This means it isn’t just PM Harper’s inaction that should concern us. PM Chretien (1993-2003) and PM Martin (2003-2006) knew about Khadr's condition (in 2003 at the latest)! Why didn't they act? Omar Khadr is a combatant under the age of 18. Surely, they had a responsibility under international laws to treat him as a child soldier! This is most certainly very disturbing to me!
Former Senator Romeo Dallarie has acted justly. Please follow in his footsteps everyone. Please keep writing to PM Harper to urge him to repatriate Omar Khadr (as I have as well). I don't know what else to do. I feel so helpless living in this society that does NOT respect human rights. If we don't respect human rights then what do we respect? What is the point of protecting a nation if we allow the nation to become one that is NOT worth protecting anymore?
Additionally, after Omar Khadr has been repatriated, I want real justice! I want everyone (Canadian and American) that tortured Omar Khadr, that hid evidence of Omar's innocence or torture, and/or that was complicit in Omar's torture to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of Canadian, US, and international criminal laws! I am outraged most of all at the Canadian government!
So that’s my rant about the injustice Omar Khadr is continuing to face!
Peace everyone.
Further Links:
Radhika Coomaraswamy, the United Nations' Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict
Amnesty International
Former Senator Romeo Dallaire
Canadian government lawyers
Opposition MPs
Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler, Omar Khadr's American military lawyer
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Why do you automatically assume that he is innocent. Why do you not cry justice for that poor young solider that was killed and his grieving family. An interview with the solider that was at the event, testifies without a doubt that Omar killed that man. So why shouldnt he face justice for his actions. And dont give me bull that he was a "child soldier", my father and his brothers were all child soliders, and my uncle at age 16 during the gulf war decided to flee the army instead of killing Americans. Omar's family from his terroist father, to his sister and mother who show all kind of hate for this land, show that Omar was more than willing to kill in the name of Allah just as Mohammed himself killed innocent people 1300 years ago. Oh and by the way, lol, didnt mohammed marry and have sex with a 9 yr old, so I guess for muslims, its ok for a 9yr old to have sex with a 50 yr old man, and a teen to kill, BUT its crazy for someone under 18 to be jailed, lol. First Omar and all muslims need to show compassion and love, before they think they should get it unconditionally.
But at the end of the day, Islam is the problem, not muslims. They are simply lost sheep, just like the germans under Nazism. Nazism was the problem so we got rid of it, and now Islam is the problem, and we need to get rid of it. It Christ was sinless and said love your enemeis. Mohammed on the other hand was a warload that killed hundreds, had sex with a minor, raped, thats why the ones that really follow the teachings of Mohammed are blood thirtsy terrorists. But I pray that God will open the eyes of all muslims so that they can reject Satan's religion of hate, war, and power.
And muslims should look at muslims countries first before they complain about rights in the West. All over the muslims world, women have little to no rights, in Saudi Arabia they cant even drive let alone vote.
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